Earlier this month, Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard said that if the administration isn’t willing to call the enemy what they truly are, it cannot defeat them.

Right on cue, White House spokesman Eric Schultz refused to say that the Taliban were terrorists during a press briefing. This is another step in line with the administration’s efforts to keep the words “Islamic terrorists” out of the press.

ABC’s Jon Karl probed Schultz on whether the Jordanians trading a prisoner for a hostage held by ISIS – also known as Daesh – was any different than President Obama trading five high-profile terrorists back to Afghanistan for deserter Bowe Bergdahl.

Schultz tried to explain that the Bergdahl situation represented a “leave no man behind” ideology Obama supported, thereby squashing the Taliban as a terrorist group because the U.S. “doesn’t negotiate with terrorists.”

“I would also point out that the Taliban is an armed insurgency and ISIL [ISIS or Daesh] is a terrorist group,” Schultz said. “So we don’t make concessions to terrorist groups.”

“You don’t think the Taliban is a terrorist group?” Karl asked.

Schultz could not answer the question. He could only repeat what he said, adding that since the deal was the “winding down of the war in Afghanistan,” it was OK in their eyes.